Word: pooh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such a wonderful friendship that it would be a shame to spoil it with marriage," quoth Actress Joan Fontaine, 45, who has lost three former friends that way: Husbands Brian Aherne, William Dozier and Collier Young. Joan pooh-poohed stories that she was about to marry Cartoonist Charles Addams, 51, the Van Gogh of the ghouls. "Marriage is for people who want babies or to live in villages; since we want neither, we're not interested...
...cantankerous, willful ally at the head of a divided nation, what headaches were in store now that Charles de Gaulle was the absolute leader of a united France? He had often repudiated NATO commitments, brusquely disavowed the West's attempts to negotiate a Berlin settlement with Russia, pooh-poohed every attempt to reach agreement on disarmament, and, despite the entreaties of his allies, pushed stubbornly ahead with his force de frappe, a nuclear deterrent that had neither present logic nor present value in Western defense planning save as the core of an independent European deterrent-and De Gaulle...
...19th century Establishment, is no longer a cozy, close-knit power elite; it has fragmented into "a cluster of interlocking circles, touching others only at one edge; they are not a single Establishment but a ring of Establishments." By contrast with the Victorians, Britain's present-day Pooh-Bahs do not aspire to know "what is best for the people," or conspire to run the country, from whose overall interests they are increasingly insulated. "This." argues Sampson "surely is the greater nightmare of a democracy-not that the government is full of sinister and all-powerful eminences grises...
...give him control of 50,000 state jobs, Scranton awoke on the morning after Election Day as a Republican really to be reckoned with. So desperate is Pennsylvania's economic condition that Scranton can hardly help improving things. An admirer of New York's Governor Rockefeller, Scranton pooh-poohs all suggestions that he himself might seek the nomination. But it could happen...
Whatever the case, Jigs does not quite have the ring of authenticity achieved by that small classic The Young Visiters, supposedly written at the turn of the century by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford. Nevertheless, Jigs makes some of the best out-loud reading since the original Pooh. "Sacraments are what you do in Church. What you do at home is something else," Virginia began the rambling essays she wrote for her boarding-school teacher. "When you are little and ugly somebody carries you in church on a pillow, and you come out a child of God and inheritor...